Comments on: Sam Middleton & Jasmine Stone, Campaigning Stratford Mothers

By: Melba Dube

Melba Dube — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:09:00 +0000

Hi there, could I have Jasmine Stone’s address and telephone number?

Much appreciated,

Melba

By: teapot

teapot — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:19:17 +0000

wondercat: if making a ‘museum of London 1960’ means returning to a time when we wanted to make this country – and this city – a better place for every citizen to live in, not just the rich, then I’m all for it. It’s a whole lot better than returning to the pre-1930s, with most of the East End owned by rack-rent landlords, no rights for tenants, and a majority of the population unable to even think of affording their own home. Three cheers for the Stratford mums.

By: Dave Green

Dave Green — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 11:09:57 +0000

Yes, it’s amazing the lengths that greedy ‘investors’ will go to. A healthy society needs a mix of people living together in one area, rich and not so rich close together rather than shipped out to fill vacant sites. The rise of the white middle class ghetto is very disturbing and only helps to divide people against others.

By: belle

belle — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:20:25 +0000

To Margate and UKIP, wondercat? Push people around, push them out and in this case push to the end of the line where jobs and opportunities are scarce and the locals tired of their town being used as an overspill of London’s “problems”. Applaud away all you like but you miss the point. People with means have the choice to live where they were “bred” but you argue that this is a romantic notion where the poor are concerned. I see your logic but it is this sort of thinking that in the end creates extreme political views.

By: Shaun Peters

Shaun Peters — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:00:41 +0000

Thank you for this inspiring piece and these inspiring people.

By: Wondercat

Wondercat — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:07:45 +0000

These young women are an aspect of “Spitalfields Life” that warrants recording. I agree that they have a right to decent living space. I applaud their determination in taking over decent living space that stands vacant in the neighbourhood in which they were reared. But I wonder at the assumption that they have a right to live where they were reared. They want to live where they were bred. Where they were bred, however, exists no longer. London has changed beneath them.

Take as an axiom, yes, that humans have a right to shelter — and that the rich must pay to let the poor be housed warm and dry and safe. But must the rich pay to let the poor be housed in a sort of Museum of London 1960, “as it was and where it was”, re-creating conditions when these women’s grandparents came into the world? That is an odd romanticisation of those conditions, it seems to me. It is as if one approved of establishing in an enclave of subsidy a sort of human zoo with, over this particular enclosure, a placard reading “The Lower Classes”.

“With the money that we have,” says the council, “we can pay for ten families to be housed in Margate or three families to be housed in London.” Margate it is, then. And the ratepayers should applaud.

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:19:52 +0000

Well done for giving this some more publicity. There is precious little opposition to heartless policies which are seriously damaging peoples’ lives. Shame on a heartless government that would have old-fashioned one nation Tories turning in their graves and shame on Newham Council for meekly accepting the profit motive over people.

By: Sarah C

Sarah C — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:37:40 +0000

Yes good for them.

By: Natalie Koch

Natalie Koch — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:12:50 +0000

Well done!

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:18:43 +0000

Well done, well done, well done, well done.
What brilliant people you are.
Do you need more support?
Let us know here in comments if yes

So impressive.
And council decision makers are too far away from the people they are to supposed to serve. Well done for getting in front of their faces.